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Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow — Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, quit after the Justice Department sought to examine the woman's supposed ties to activist groups.
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Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow — Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, was among those who resigned as the Justice Department sought to examine the woman's supposed ties to activist groups.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Blasted Federal Prosecutors at White House Event, Calling Them Weak — The president criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a photo shoot, a day before Federal Reserve subpoenas — WASHINGTON—President Trump criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a White House event last week …
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Carol Leonnig / MS NOW:
Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting — At least four leaders of a Justice Department unit that investigates police killings have resigned in protest over the administration's handling of the fatal shooting of a motorist in Minneapolis …
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Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Federal prosecutors quit in protest over lack of investigation into ICE shooting — Six lawyers from US attorney's office in Minnesota quit along with four leaders of DoJ's civil rights division — A wave of federal prosecutors in Minnesota and Washington DC have resigned in protest …
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Matt Sepic / MPR News:
Minn. fraud prosecutor quits over ICE shooting probe
Minn. fraud prosecutor quits over ICE shooting probe
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Laura Jedeed / Slate:
You've Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I'm the Proof. — What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out. — The plan was never to become an ICE agent.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Facing Contempt Threat, Clintons Refuse to Testify in Epstein Inquiry — The couple escalated their battle with Representative James R. Comer, the chairman of the Oversight Committee, who said he would move to hold them in contempt of Congress. — Bill and Hillary Clinton refused on Tuesday …
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New York Times:
Read the Clintons' Legal Letter to Comer — Lawyers for Bill and Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the Oversight Committee, on why the couple would not testify in the House's Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
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Nicole Charky-Chami / Raw Story:
Whistleblower drops ‘largest ever’ ICE leak to unmask agents: ‘The last straw’ — A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.
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Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach — INTERNAL REVOLT — A DHS whistleblower appears to have exposed data on federal immigration workers after the shooting of Renee Good. — EXCLUSIVE — Sensitive details of around 4,500 ICE …
Tucker Reals / CBS News:
Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgue — Information trickling out of Iran on Tuesday suggests that a crackdown by authorities to end more than two weeks of widespread anti-government protests has likely been far more deadly than activists outside the country have reported.
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New York Times:
Blowback Builds Over Criminal Investigation of Powell — Trump allies fear that the inquiry into the Fed chair could complicate the process of replacing him this year. — The investigation of Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, has prompted fierce blowback from Republicans …
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Los Angeles Times:
Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says — 7 min Click here to listen to this article — A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round …
New York Times:
‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss's Bumpy Revamp at CBS — Her reimagining of “CBS Evening News” is under heavy scrutiny, and even became a punchline on her own network on Sunday at the Golden Globes. — Bari Weiss's message to the “CBS Evening News” team was blunt.
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CMS:
Marketplace 2026 Open Enrollment Period Report: National Snapshot — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reports that 22.8 million consumers have signed up for 2026 individual market health insurance coverage through the Marketplaces since the start of the 2026 Marketplace …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Resistance Libs Were Right — For the last decade there's been a debate, among people who don't like Donald Trump, about whether he's a fascist. — The argument that he isn't often hinges on two things. First, when Trump first came to power, he lacked a street-fighting force …
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Majority Of Voters Think Fatal Shooting Of Minneapolis Woman By ICE Agent Was Not Justified, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 57% Of Voters Disapprove Of The Way ICE Is Enforcing Immigration Laws — mail_outline — Days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …
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NBC News:
Some Democrats push for a fight over DHS funds after ICE shooting in Minneapolis — They want guardrails on immigration agents. The issue has risen to the fore ahead of a key Jan. 30 deadline after an ICE officer shot and killed an American woman in Minneapolis.
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Joe Perticone / The Bulwark:
Democrats Appear Ready to Duck a Key Fight on ICE
Democrats Appear Ready to Duck a Key Fight on ICE
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error — A handful of police departments that use Flock have unwittingly leaked details of millions of surveillance targets and a large number of active police investigations around the country because they have failed …
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CNN:
Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome — Federal agencies US military National security — The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators …
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Joe Anuta / Politico:
Another Eric Adams official charged in another corruption case … According to a federal indictment made public Tuesday, Herbert allegedly accepted thousands of dollars in kickbacks in exchange for pushing city officials to hire a security company for contracts at public housing complexes.
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Joe Anuta / Politico:
Former NYPD head sues Eric Adams for defamation
Former NYPD head sues Eric Adams for defamation
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Alice Speri / The Guardian:
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration's demand for ‘lists of Jews’ — Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights — Several faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration's efforts to obtain information …
Johanna Treeck / Politico:
Global central bankers speak up for beleaguered Fed Chair Powell — The International brotherhood of monetary mandarins is up in arms about what they see as a political attack on an upstanding colleague. — Global central banks rallied behind Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday …
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Paul Krugman:
Trump is Venezuelifying the United States
Trump is Venezuelifying the United States
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TMZ.com:
President Trump Filmed Flipping Off Ford Worker Who Yells ‘Pedophile Protector’ at Him — PRESIDENT TRUMP HEY, F*** YOU, BUB, FOR THAT PEDO DISS!!! … Donald Trump turned into Donald Grump during a Tuesday appearance at a Ford plant ... launching into an F-bomb attack on a worker who appeared to yell …
Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Organizing bodies have grappled with gender issues, pleasing few. — In two cases, the court's conservative majority showed little inclination to strike down laws barring transgender girls from girls' and women's teams. — Here's the latest. — The Supreme Court's conservative majority …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Nazi Slogans Are Not an Accident — How many Americans actually want a race war? — ∙ Paid — 1. Numbers — During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump promised to deport every illegal immigrant who was a rapist, murderer, or thief. He also promised to deport 20 million immigrants.
Julia Harte / Reuters:
Video of Minneapolis shooting convinced these Trump voters it was justifiable — Video of a U.S. immigration agent fatally shooting a Minneapolis mother in her car on Wednesday has divided the nation, becoming a political Rorschach test that elicits different verdicts depending on who views it.
Kathryn Palmer / USA Today:
Department of Labor under fire for language similar to Nazi slogan — A social media post from the Department of Labor is attracting criticism for appearing to echo a Nazi-era slogan from the early 20th century. — The department posted to X on Jan. 10, “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.
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Lauren Coates / Variety:
Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ Creator, Dies at 68 — Scott Adams, creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, who became controversial for his right-wing statements, has died following a battle with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 68. … Adams started writing blog posts praising Donald Trump in 2015 …
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Mike Snider / USA Today:
‘When did I do that?’ Trump says about $2,000 tariff dividend checks — Those $2,000 dividend checks President Donald Trump has been talking about for months seemed to have slipped his mind during a recent interview with The New York Times. And the payment date appears to have shifted, too.
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Preston Mizell / Fox News:
Trump administration ends temporary protected status for thousands of Somalis in US — Several thousand Somali nationals currently living in the US must leave the country by March 17 — FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is ending temporary protection status (TPS) for Somalia …
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Steve Benen / MS NOW:
An unraveling Justice Department appears to be coming apart at the seams — In 2025, the DOJ struggled with everything from purges to incompetence to weaponization. In 2026, its collapse seems to be accelerating. — As Attorney General Pam Bondi's tenure approaches the one-year mark …
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Hassan Ali Kanu / Politico:
DOJ says Halligan is still a US attorney, despite a judge disqualifying her … In a response to Novak signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Halligan herself, the Justice Department said Currie's ruling only applied to the James and Comey cases. Their filing directly questioned both Novak …
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